Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On February 28, 1888, about fifty men broke into the jail at Clinton, Kentucky, and took from it a Black man identified only as William. The mob hanged him from a sycamore tree alongside Sam Price. According to a dispatch from Cairo, Illinois, printed in The Atlanta Constitution, the bodies were left hanging until daylight, then taken down by authorities and buried. The only name given for him is William.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cairo, Ill. special dispatch in The Atlanta Constitution reports that a mob of about fifty men broke into the Clinton jail and hanged the man from a sycamore tree.
Reported by: Cairo, Ill. special dispatch in The Atlanta Constitution (reporters).